New submission from Sandro Tosi <sandro.t...@gmail.com>:

In the smtplib doc I read:

  Low-level methods corresponding to the standard SMTP/ESMTP commands HELP, 
RSET, NOOP, MAIL, RCPT, and DATA are also supported. Normally these do not need 
to be called directly, so they are not documented here. For details, consult 
the module code.

Well, I think the documentation should include also those low-level apis (maybe 
in a separate subsection).

>From my POV, smtplib should implement the protocol, and give the programmers 
>the tools to use the protocol as they prefers, and as a plus some companion 
>methods to easy the most common operations.

I'm in need to use the low-level apis, and not finding them in the doc is a 
disservice to me (with my user hat on ;)) and just say "go read the source" is 
kinda rude and unexpected.

What do you think?

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 162395
nosy: docs@python, sandro.tosi
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: smtplib: add low-level APIs to doc?
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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